SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo of Tenerife invests 413,726.72 euros in the improvement of Finca Las Llanadas, in the municipality of Los Realejos, a space that is owned by the Cabildo and which is emerging as the largest conservation farm for ancient fruit trees in the entire Canary Islands, which the Tenerife Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation Center conserves and carries out studies of pipe fruit trees.
The Primary Sector counselor, Valentín González, recently visited the farm with the mayor of Los Realejos, Adolfo González, where they supervised the work that the insular institution is carrying out on the site, to put it into cultivation, and establish the collections of apple and stone fruit trees, as well as the duplication of pear trees, favoring the conservation of said plant material for use by the island’s farmers.
The work that is being carried out in this environment also covers the need to improve the existing building on the property, transforming it and adapting it to these new needs for use, providing it with spaces such as a warehouse, cold room, phytosanitary room, drying rooms, sanitary units (bathrooms and changing rooms), as well as a small office and a meeting room, according to a note from the corporation.
Councilor Valentín González explained that “this farm brings together more than a hundred varieties of ancient fruit trees, which are exclusive to Tenerife, with the aim of conserving part of the natural heritage and continuing to improve the training of farmers.”
The mayor of Los Realejos, Adolfo González, valued “the commitment of the Cabildo of Tenerife with the primary sector” and thanked what represents a “new commitment” to island investment in the municipality, specifically in this area of Las Llanadas, “with the development of new phases of improvement and equipment for this experimental farm, which is already a reference in terms of conservation of crops and fruit varieties, and which can become a multipurpose resource for interpretation, field work, guided tours with schoolchildren , among other options.”
